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NORTH GEORGIA TIMES. 5: T' luAt.*?[\ B- «*'f■ and Pro.rleton. A nature PRAYER. V Vh bird, that sings such thankful psalms, ',, Rebuking human fretting. Teaeh us your secret of content, Yonr science ef forgetting. For every life must have its ills— You, too, have times of sorrow— Teach us, like you, to lay them by And sing again to-morrow; For gems of blackest jet may rest Within a golden setting, And he is wise who understands The science of forgetting. Ob, palms, that bow before the gale Until its peaceful ending, Teach us your yielding, linked with strength, Your graceful art of bending; For every tree must meet the storm. Each heart must encounter sorrow; Teach us, like you, to bow, that we May stand erect to-morrow; For there is strength in humble grace— Its wise disciples shielding— And he is strong who understands The happy art of yielding. Oh, brook, which laughs all night, all day, With voice of sweet seduction, Teach us your art of laughing more At every new obstruction; For every life has eddies deep And rapids fiercely dashing, Sometimes through gloomy caverns toned, Sometimes in sunlight flashing; Yet there is wisdom in your way, Yonr laughing waves and wimplesj Teach us your gospel built of smiles, The secret of your dimples. Oh, oaks, that stand in forest ranks, Tail, strong, erect, and sightly. Your branches arched in noblest grace, Your leaflets laughing lightly; - Teach us your firm and quiet strength, Your secrets of extraction From slimy darkness in the soil The grace of life and action; For they are rich who understand The secret of combining The good deep hidden in the earth ; With that where suns are shining. Oh, myriad forms of earth and air, Of lake, and sea, and river, Which makes our landscapes glad and fair To glorify the giver; Teach us tesleam the lessons hid ■ In each familiar feature, The mystery which so porfects Each low or lofty creature; E°r God is good, and life is sweet, While suns are brightly shining . To glad the glooms and thus rebuke Onr follies of repining. a. « s' a '* • ■;* ’•Tf'- •- - While all the works ot nature sing Their psalms of Joy together. Then learn, oh, heart, their songs of hope! Cease, soul, thy thanklass sorrow; For though the clouds he dark to-day, The sun shall shine to-morrow; Loarn well from bird and tree and rill The sins of dark resentment ; And know the greatest gift of God Is faith and sweet contentment. — J. J5. Jones, in Courier-Journal. THE SAILOR’S BRIDE. A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY Many decades ago a vessel from Bos¬ ton arrived at a dock in London. Among itbe hands on board was one named Tudor, a steady, well-looking young man, who acted as a sailor, Very [early one morning a young, beautiful and de¬ cently dressed woman came tripping down to the vessel and inquired of Tudor for the captain. She was told he was not risen, but she insisted on seeing him without delay. Tudor called him up, and she addressed him with; “Good-morning, captain! I have called to see if you will marry me.” “Marry you?"—believing her to be a suspicious character—“leave my vessel instantly, if you know what is for your good 1” She next went fo the mate and r eceived a similar answer; she then went to where Tudor was, being engaged in handling ship-tacks, and put the same question to him. “With all my heart,” answered Tudor, in a jocular manner. “Then,” said she, “come along with me." Tudor left bis work and followed her. By the time the principal shops were opened the lady entered a barber’s shop followed by Tudor. She ordered a knight of the razor to clip his heard and hair, both of which he stood in need. She paid the bills and entered a hat store. The requested the best of beavers in the store, aud told Tudor to select one, and he did so, the price being paid by the lady. Tudor threw his old tarpaulin aside. They next visited a shoe store, and selected a pair of boots, the lady also paying for them. Tudor, by this time, was puzzled to devise the objec the lady had in view. He solicited an explanation, but she told him to be silent, She led the way into a clothing store, Here Tudor was told to select the best suit of clothes in the store. The manof the tar bedaubed pants and checkered shirt was in a few minutes metamor phosed into as fine a gentleman ns walks the streets, the bill, as before, beingpaid by the lady. Tudor’s amazement was now complete. lie again and again ear neatly insisted on an explanation; the ‘only answer he received was: “Follow meant! " be not afraid; all will be ex- SPUING PLACE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, wz JULY 16, 1885. plained to your satisfaction. ” Ho there fa o realoved to ask no more questions. Next she * conducted him into a magistrate’s office and politely requested the min¬ ister of the law to unite her and her com¬ panion in matrimony. This was rather a damper to Tudor, but he yielded. The ceremony over, the couple were pro¬ nounced man and wife. Without utter¬ ing a word or exchanging a kiss, Tudor and his wife left the office, not,however, until she paid the magistrate his fee. The couple walked in silence, Tudor hardly knowing what he was doing or what he had done. Turning the corner, he saw a splendid house, toward which the wile directed her steps and into which they entered, passing into a room that was furnished in a magnificent style. She told him to sit down and make himself contented while she went into another room. The first one who addressed her was her uncle, who asked how she escaped from her room and where she had been. Her only answer was: “Thou fiend in human shape; I al¬ low you just one hour to remove your effects from this house. You; have long deprived me of my property, and meant to through life; but you are frustrated. I am mistress of my own house. 1 am married, and my husband is here!” We must leave the newly-married Cou¬ ple for the purpose of giving the history of Mrs. Tudor. She was the only child of a wealthy gentleman, Mr. A.-, his daughter’s name being Eliza. He had been at great expense in her educa¬ tion, she being the only object of his care, his wife dying when she was quite young. A short tune before his death’ he made a will by which his brother was to have-possession of all his property until his daughter was married, when it was to be {riven up to her husband, but if sho died without m&rryiog, the prop¬ erty was to go to her ungie and-his fami¬ ly. After the death of Mr. A, his broth¬ er removed into his house and Eliza boarded in his family. She soon discov¬ ered that her uncle did not intend she should ever marry. He shut her up in ono of the centre rooms in the third story and refused her asspeiates by tel -Hag- ar gone on a journey, le unfortunate girl was thus shut out from the world for three years. ‘ Her scanty breakfast happened one morning to be carried to her one morning by her old servant Juan. Seeing the face of her old friend and servant, Eliza burst into tears. Juan well understood the meaning. “Hush, Eliza? Some of your old ser¬ vants have long been planning means for your escape.” “What?” exclaimed Eliza, “is it pos¬ sible that I am to be delivered from this vile place?” It is unnecessary to detail all the min utia of the escape. Suffice it to say that on the morning of the fourth day after the interview she made her escape. This was about daylight. She immediately bent her steps to the wharf where the Boston vessel lay. The amazement of Tudor and trans¬ port of his wife at the sudden change of fortune may possibly be conceived but cannot be expressed. One pleasant morning days after ' some the marriage the crew of the Boston ves sal’s attention was drawn to a splendid carriage approaching thc wharf. The driver let down the steps and a gentle¬ man and lady elegantly dressed alighted. The gentleman asked the captain what port he was from, and many other questions-all the time avoiding his scrutiny; at last, turning to the captain and calling him by name, he said: “Captain, before leav¬ ing your vessel, permit me to make you acquainted with Mrs. Tiidor.” The captain and those about him bad not recognized him to be their old friend and shipmate Tudor, whom they supposed some fatal accident had befallen. You may judge’of the congratulations that followed. The captain regretted the harsh judg¬ ment he had at first passed upon the young lady, but unlike the mate, being a married man, he was spared the added mortification of [the latter that he had spurned even to consider so fortunate an offer of marriage. This remarkable marriage, the bride being snatched from prison walls, as it were, and the groom called from the hard and humble lot of a common sailor both brought suddenly and unexpectedly t6 positions of freedom and affluence— has hardly a parallel in all history. The union thus formed proved to he a very happy one. The large fortune that then fell under the active management of Frecerick-Tudor was wisely handled and largely increased. In due time Mr. and Mrs. Tudor transferred their residence fo Boston. With shrewd foresight, Mr. Tudor en ■ tered largely into the ico business, being the first person to make shipments of ice by sea. His venture was made in 1805, when he sailed himself with a cargo of 130 tons, in his own brig to Martinique, Westlndies. In 1815 Mr. Tudor ob¬ tained the monopoly of the Havana ice business, and important privileges from the Cuban government. In 1817 lie introduced the business in Charleston, S. C., the next year in Savannah, and ia 1830 into New Orleans. In May, 1833, he sent the first cargo of ice to the East Indies, which was delivered at Calcutta in the autumn of that year. Of the 180 tons, nearly one-half was wasted in the voyage and in going up the Ganges. The ice was sold' imme¬ diately, at no more than half the cost of that prepared by the natives. In 1884 the first cargo of ice was shipped to Brazil by Mr. Tudor, and until 1886 he had a monopoly of the shipment of ice, but it finally became so large and profit¬ able that others entered into the busi¬ ness from various ports. Mr. Tudor’s foresight secured to Bos¬ ton the chief position of the Calcutta trade, and gave her ships cargoes for Southern ports; thug reducing the costs of freighting southern products to the North. The extensive and valuable Tu¬ dor estates in Boston and vicinity, where representatives of the family still reside, are well known. The Tudors have al¬ ways been noted for public spirit* in¬ telligence and refinement, and it was a streak of good luck for more than two that about, the establishment of the fam¬ ily in America .—Boston Commonwealth. King of the Wall Street Bears. Addison Cammack is the most im¬ portant man in Wall street on the bear side. The small operators circle around him like June bugs around a gas jet. They look upon him as the foun¬ tain head of all War wisdom and inspi¬ ration. Words from ilia lips are as precious as pearls, and are caught and carried along from one to another until they have gone the rounds. He is a heavy, broad shouldered man of fifty-eight, with iron gray hair and mustache. His eyes are gray, and his mm^Aad-cfehi^And indicative of flrmnesA qqse. and arq..large, resolution. and He dresses very plainly, although his clothes are made by the most expensive tailor in town, and he always carries a walking stick. Ho speaks quickly, end almost invariably follows each remark with the inquiry “Huh?” Being a bachelor, his he has a valet, who attends to wants. He is a member of thc Stock exchange, but is rarely seen on the floor, and is not down town even half as much as one would suppose he would be. He goes out walking and driving a good deal, and is often seen in Central park. Cam mack is a man of exemplary habits. At one time he was an inveterate smoker, He smoked the strongest kind of cigars and a great number of them. A year and a half ago his physician told him that his health would be "improved if he smoked less. He never smoked a cigar after that The man’s will is so strong that he will do anything he makes up. his mind to do. He is a Southerner. He was horn in Kentucky and drifted dotou to New Orleans. He subsequently came North and started as a cotton broker in Now York. It was not long before he got to dealing in stocks, and he was successful. He is now worth $6,000,000 or $7,000, 000. He goes on his jiidgmeut, which is next to unerring. He works the market against Jay Gould, and Gould does not seem to be able to entrap him in any way. He is always posted on everything, and there is scampering when he makes a move. He is gruff blunt, and to the point, and has a mind of his own. He can form his own opin¬ ions. That is the great secret of his suc¬ cess. A friend who was talking to Mm one night said: “I hear you are called “The Mephisto pheles of the street. J » “What is that for?”giowled Old Cam “Because you raise Hades down there I suppose.” “Well, if they mean I do as I want to, that's what I am, and I don’t care what name they give me.” Cam used to be shaved by a certain barber in the shop in the Windsor. The man was very attentive. Not long ago the man had a chance to buy a shop> and Cam let him have $2,200 to start in business. Cam made $1,600,000 in the fall in stocks at the time of the panic in 1873 In the last great decline he has made all of $2,000,000. It is no uncommon thing for him to make or loose a quar¬ ter of a million .—New Tori- Chronicle. War departments are interested in q new kind of gunpowder, wMchis bnown in color, aud when tired products but little smoke. m WO RICH AMERICANS. ' c field, New York Capitalist-Ar. mow, the Chicago Park Healer. Cyrus 4r. Field is one of those distin guisbed - Americans who have fought their way to wealth from a humble begin¬ ning. He is one of four brothers who Have made their mark at the bar, in the pulpit aiyf on the bench. Mr. Field was not especially known until his exertions resulted' 1 in the successful laying of the first Atlantic cable. This great work was an experiment, and a most ex pensive one to its promoters until it was actual ly itoved successful. For more than twelve years Mr. Field gave his! whole time to this work, though the idea did not originate with him. The cable of 1857 broke, and that of 1858, as is well known, parted after it had been working about two weeks, and just at the time when it was thought it was ready for business. Notwithstanding this terrible disappointment, the work was continued. In . 1865 there another failure, ’ but vyas a year later a cable was laid which was successfully used. The persever ance of; Mr. Field, who never lost his faith diring krone- all the trying yeare, v is one of the hi/ characteristics which has marked 1 whole the career. When cable olri866 got into good working or der Mr.- Field sent out an expedition to pick up Ike broken cable of 1865, and the sude% of this wonderful enterprise caused completion almost as great a sensation had as the of the first cable done. For seteral years Mr. Field rested from hi*labors or traveled. He went gions arouhd and t|c Africa, world, visited and the Arctic famous re. became for Ms excursion parties of friends to Iceland « India. During the latter part of his li4s Mr. Field has again become active iu,the business world; He took a leading part in the reorganization cf the Toledo, Wabash and Western rail¬ road, and ’SLately he has been largely in¬ terested* wli|'rn in other corporations, notably the Union, and rite Nsw^Y o rk Elevated have m|dc roads. his Mr. quite Field’s prominent holdTJ^s In name ’ A* year or more, ago he b »l|t " ce ® site near the Battery. In appearance Mr. Field is grizzled and gray, but his eyo is ' clear, and he has a brisk step, which be¬ tokens strength for a long continuance of his business career, though he has very recently announced his intention of retiring from his more active engage¬ ments. Philip D. Armour is probably the rich¬ est man in Chicago to day, and, although a great deal of the wealth he has amassed he 'owes to his own enterprise and pluck, be has been fortunate in his asso¬ ciates, and has generally had rich and influential men co-operating with him. Mr. Armour was bora in tho year 1832, ia Onondaga county, New York, of honest farming par ents. His first enterprise was to as sist his father in the management of the team and in keeping it straight as it plowed a furrow. His rather ambitious spirit soon got tired of this, and some where between the ages of seventeen and nineteen years he started out for that El Dorado of ambition—California. Ar mour reached the Pacific coast, although the walking was not good, and, things turning out well for the young miner, in three years he had acquired a sufficient competence to return to his native place and purchase a farm, which had been the bight of hie ambition before he left. He did return, but the sights he had had of new lands and the reckless spirit of roving he had in the three years acquir¬ ed, made him unwilling to sottle in the quiet old places of the East. Visions of the West fired the young man’s ambition and he started for Cincinnati. There he stayed a short time, sufficiently long, however, for him to make the acquaint ance of Miss Belle Ogden, who, toward the end of the war, he married, and who during bis residence in Chicago has been known for her universal charity and good works. From Cincinnati Mr. Armour went to Milwaukee, and there he made the ac quaintance of Mr. Phmkinton. Between the two a business connection sprang up, which resulted so successfully that they are two of the very rich men of the West, At Milwaukee a packing house was started. About: the opening of the war Chicago presented a good field, and Mr. Armour came hither and opened an es tabiishment on Archer avenue. Here business psospered, and, as Armour was a shrewd man, he did not,lose the op portunity which presented itself when “gold was really gold," aud speculation in it meant coining money. This gave him all the capital he wanted, and in 1885 he had, together with Mr. Plankin ton, a transaction in pork which cleared them about $800,000. (Matters generally VOL V. New Series. No. 23. had an upward turn, though occasionally he lost a little money, but nothing to speak of. In 1879 he and Mr. Plaukin ton wenf into their big deal, and by carrying pork for six months cleared about $4,000,000. Since that time they have made large deals, but none of suf¬ ficient importance to dilate on. There are connected with the firm several brothers, but Philip D. is the chief, and his word in the management of the af¬ fairs of the firm is law. The firm has P ackin S h ous*s ia Chicago, Milwaukee and Kansas cit y> attd employs about 10, 000 mon - Its foreign trade is very large, aad u hfl8 recently shipped large orders ot canned beef to England for use in the Soudan. Mr - Armopt is a hard worker. He is at his office ever -V morning at 7 o’clock, never leaves until 6 o’clock in the « v « nin 8- wi “ter aud summer he retires between 8 and 9, and all the social duties hftve t0 bc performed by his charming wife 8nd two *» DS > oao ot whom > a « ed twenty-one years, is in his father’s office, Mr - Armour is perhaps the most liberal of all the Chicago merchants in his con ‘ributions to charitable objects, but being so much engrossed in his business affairs he allows that beneficence to come from thc handa of his wifc - and accurd * holda an inconspicuous place os a Philanthropist before the people, who ap “* but acquainted with him— PhitaoM P hM Preu - Story o! a Wampum Bol There is in the possession of the de scendants of Colonel Andrew Ellicott, of Columbia, Penn., says the Erie Bis palch, a wampum belt of rare beauty and value, which'is preserved as a memento of the shrewdness and skill of the great surveyor, by which he not only became the possessor of the belt, but saved his life and the lives of many others. Directly after the purchase of Louisi ana from the French government Colonel Ellicott was scut by the United States government to survey the boundary line between the new territory and Mexico, which then included Texas. He wa s accompanied^by a large carps of engi neerjs and 100 government troops. /They cott and his engineer corps found them selves surrounded by a large body of Blackfeet Indians, by whom the entire party was captured. Colonel EUi cott had a half-breed interpreter, who found out that it was the intention of the Indians to massacre the white cap¬ tives, and he informed the chiefs that his master was a great medicine man who could do many wonderful things, among them being his ability to kill a man, or any living thing at a distance of 150 yards, while the object he shot at was hidden from view behind a tree, and he would not aim at it or shoot through the tree. The chiefs said that if the i preter's master would kill a wild tursey in that way they would give thc whole j party their liberty, Colonel Ellicott was not a good rifle shot, but he was able to do many clever things in shooting by means of mechani¬ cal tricks. When the decision of the chiefs was given they procured the turkey aud told Colonel Elli cott to exhibit bis power. Confident of his success, he drove a stake in the ground a few feet beyond the tree with an axe. Tying the turkey firmly to "the stake so it could not move from its post tion he walked in a oblique direction to one side of the tree and struck the blade of his axe, apparently with no design, into the ground and then made a mark on it with chalk. Pacing of! the 150 yards, he aimed at the chalk mark and fired. The Indian chief ran behind the tree and brought the turkey out dead, the ball, glancing from the axe, having passed clear through its body, with such nicety had Col. Ellicott calculated the angles. The principal cMef was so delighted with the feat that he unclasped the magnificent belt be wore and fastened it about Col. Eilicott’s waist. The sur veyors were given their liberty, and the belt worn by the colonel insured him and his party safety and reverence during the remainder of the survey. 11 ~ Killed by Meteoric Stones. . Considering the number of meteoric stones which reach the earth’s surface it would not be surprising if many lives had been destroyed them. It is stated that loss of life resulted from a large fall ia Africa; that about the year 1020 many persons and animals were killed; that in 1511, about 5 o'clock one evening, a priest was struck and killed; and that still later, 1650, a monk was killed. B,lt thaBe ; according to Mr. JTames It. Gre ^- 8eom to b ® the ,DS(ance * recorded of death . from tailing mete. or te9 - - ----- Fixed'stars—members of a stranded theatrical troupe.— Burlington Fret Preu. POPULAR SCIENCE. The current of Lake Erie has an ef¬ fect upon the adjacent shores sufficient to make the spring season from two to four weeks earlier in and around Toledo than at Buffalo. Disease germs are probably much less effected by extreme cold than might be expected. Experiments have been reported to the Glasgow Philosphical society in which a tempertature of 120 degrees below zero was insufficient to stop processes of putrefaction. One of Dr. Livingstone’s early achieve¬ ments was the discovery of Lake Nig ami, in South Africa, which was then a favorite resort of elephants and other large animals. A frequent explorer of the same region reports the lake dried up, leaving an arid spot devoid of both game and vegetation. It lias been observed by Professor Holdefleiss that the heet seed sown in a pot in which the soil was exposed to the electric light germinated two days ear¬ lier than similar seeds without the ac¬ tion of the electric light. Another in¬ teresting observation is that of Herr Scholler, who has noticed an exceptional luxuriance of beets in a small plot which had been struck by lightning. Several cases of natives of India, hav¬ ing a white skin, have been reported. Mr. A. T. Fraser mentions the finding of a family in which several white persons, resembling Europeans, had appeared,the parents having the ordinary blackness of the natives. The whiteness was not a result of leprosy. The skin of the al binos is much more sensitive to the sun’s rays than that of other natives or even of Europeans. The contrast between white and dark relatives having a strik. ing resemblance of feature is said to be -most remarkable. a German engineer is reported to have made an important discovery in aeronau tics, by which he is enabled to condense or expand the gas in a balloon. The agent he employs is compressed carbonic ac j d} w ;th the help of which, he says, He is able to ascend or descend at pleas ure . This vertical movement would put moving in the horizontal direction he wishes. Should all this prove true, says Iron, the discovery would be an im¬ portant one for military operations, be¬ cause in timo of war a balloon would be able to reach the enemy’s territory and ascend or descend without requiring a fresh supply of gas. The gigantic animals which existed in the western part of the United States during the tortiary age, and which con¬ stitute an order known to science as the Dinocerata, form the subject of an elabo¬ rate treatise by Professor O. C. Marsh, of Yale college. A basin in Wyoming Ter¬ ritory, drained by Green river, is the only locality in the world where remains of these creatures have been found. This basin, now fiom 6,000 to 8,000 feet above sea level, is the site of an ancient lake, on whose borders the great beasts, nearly equaling elephants in size, roamed in great numbers, and in which many of them were entombed. In the same re¬ gion anecstral forms of the tapir, the* horse and the pig flourished at the same geological period; and the lake swarmed with crocodiles, tortoises, snakes and fishes, while its shores were fringed with palms and other plants which are now characteristic of the tropics. Pro¬ fessor Marsh believes the age of great mammals to bo past, and that the ele¬ phants must soon disappear from tho earth. Preacher Davies and King George. when preBident of Princeton college, SamlJe , Davies visited £ ag i and f or the purp08e of obtaining donations for the institution. The king (George H.) hai tt curiosity to hear a preacher from “the wilds of America.” He accordingly at tended, and was so much struck with his command i n g eloquence, that he express e d his astonishment loud enough to b* heard ha i f way over t ho house, in suck terms as these: “He is a wonderful maul" “W’hy, he beats my bishop!’* etc. Davies observing that the king was attracting more attention than himself, pausedi ’ and> ^ looking his majesty full In the {ac 6) ga e in an emphatic tone, ^ following beautiful rebuke: “ When the jj 0n roaretlli iet tfo beasts of the ^ ore5t tremb]o . ^ when t be Lord speakctll let th# kinga of the earth keep 8ilent „ nie king instantly shrank bank - n hig ^ Iike a ^hoolboy who b..d ^ ra d on the head by his master, and rcmaincd quiet during the remainder q{ the Mrm0Q The dext dav the mon . arch sent for him, aad gave him fittv guincas for the i nsti t„ ti0 n over which he presided, observing at the same time to his courtiers; “Heisan honest man—an honest man.”